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Because if you and your co-workers all negotiate together, you have more bargaining power and can extract much greater concessions.
by kyllo 8y ago
Because if you and your co-workers all negotiate together, you have more bargaining power and can extract much greater concessions.
- scarface74 8y agoBut it also means that the people of lower ability whether technical or negotiating get more but the people with more ability get less. Unions really fight against performance based differences... https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/11/us/denver-teacher-strike.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/11/us/denver-teacher-strike.... https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/michel-kellygagnon/union-performance-pay_b_6694350.html https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/michel-kellygagnon/union-perfo... As it turns out, union contracts don't just set minimum prices that employees can be paid; they also tend to set pay ceilings that employers cannot exceed without the union's permission--and that permission is rarely forthcoming. Paying the most talented, hardest-working employees more than the average Joe who barely works to rule is not allowed, you see.